By Ragan Sutterfield on 12/09/2009
Perhaps we should give up on making a living from our work and simply do it because we are called to it and offer our work to our neighbors as a free, gift just as we have received freely.
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features, Money & Economics | Tagged gift economy, God's Economy, labor, money, Money & Economics, Wendell Berry |
By Dean Ohlman on 12/04/2009
Theologians have historically categorized the Bible and nature as “two books,”…The first book, comprised of the inspired Scriptures of the Jewish and Christian faith, is called “special revelation.” The second of God’s two revelations is the book of nature, termed “general revelation.”
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Theology | Tagged creation, natural world, Theology, worldviews |
By Pam Fowler on 12/03/2009
Why do we view God in the way that we do? I have been thinking a lot about the way that I think about God and His character-I have also been thinking a lot about how I think life ought to be and my role in it. How much of these things are truth and how much has been implanted by our culture?
Posted in Features, Learning As We Go | Tagged christian living, culture, GOD our father, how we view GOD, kingdom economics, Theology, worldview |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 12/02/2009
I have been working to be unproductive at least one day a week. It’s a difficult chore, but one I think we are called to. We are called to be still so that we can know God—to simply be in God’s presence.
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features | Tagged idleness, sabbath, Slavoj Zizek |
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